Hi, I’m Janine. Welcome to Yoga Living 50 and Beyond, I am so glad you are here! I write about topics related to practicing yoga when you are over 50, both on and off the mat. Practicing yoga is not only poses on the mat, but it’s also mindset, meditation, breathwork, and more. This aging process is not easy. I want you to understand your body and mind a bit better, and to find more ease and less struggle in your day to day.
I’m here to help you see how different yoga poses can teach you about yourself: how to be kinder, gentler, and more loving toward yourself, how to age gracefully with strength, balance, mobility, and mindfulness, how to cope with getting older, and more!
I want you to understand your aging body. When you are aware of how you move, it affects how you feel. Yoga is a movement science to help you build muscle and bone strength, improve your balance and mobility, and help you notice the lies that your mind tells you (I’m too much, I’m not enough, I am a burden, etc). It is a practice on the mat that you take off the mat and into you life, to live with less stress and anxiety, and more ease. Taking yoga off the mat and into your life helps you grow emotionally and learn to let go of old beliefs that no longer serve you.
When you are over 50, it’s common for parts of your body to hurt. Understanding how to practice yoga in YOUR body can help you feel less pain and more comfortable in your body. Yoga gives you strength, mobility, and so that you can move through your day with more ease and less effort. Understanding how to move your body helps. Yoga also teaches you how to cope with what is happening in your body so that you are not scared and frustrated all the time. Learning to accept the body that you have is what practicing yoga is all about. My goal is to guide you through this process, one essay at a time.
This community is for you if you are an active adult over 50 who wants to stay active and cross-train for life! If you are looking to be kinder and gentler with yourself, you belong here. Participate in the comments section, and support this work with a free or paid subscription.
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Regardless of the subscription that you choose, I am grateful that you are here. Thanks for coming along for the ride! ~Janine
About me:
I’m Janine! I have been teaching and practicing yoga since 1995 and have been an acupuncturist since 2003. I am a GenX, Type A, recovering perfectionist who is learning to “human” like everyone else. I started practicing yoga at age 23. Now that I am in my 50s, I have seen what a benefit this yoga practice has been for both my body and my mind. I look and feel younger than many people my age, and am able to be kinder and gentler to myself in my self talk. I attribute this to my yoga practice, both on and off the mat. Always a work in progress, growth is non-linear, but worth the work! Join me in Yoga Living 50 and Beyond!
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Reach out at any time with questions, poses or concepts you would like for me to explore in my posts, or just to say hi! You can find me in the chat or at janine@purpleroomyoga.com
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I’m grateful to have you here at Yoga Living 50 and Beyond, don’t be a stranger!
~Janine
